Today, I accidentally stumbled across .ovh domains, offered by OVH Cloud, a French VPS provider, which may be the cheapest TLDs available – $2.15/year for initial registrations, and then $3.49/year for renewals.

I’m a strong purveyor of the “make it first, register domain second” mantra since spending money on domains is easy while doing is hard, but with that caveat, .ovh may be a good a spot for long-term side projects.

.tk domains are technically cheaper because they’re free (something which I’d somehow never realized, despite having seem them in the wild for 2+ decades now), but have been unavailable for registration since March, after Meta sued them for (surprise!) making up a massively disproportionate share of domains used for phishing and other malice (technically, the lawsuit is for cybersquatting and trademark infringement).